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[00:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 New Optimization Chip Tackles Machine Learning, 5G Routing - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:08] <exec> 08└─Maybe they can put these in traffic lights? Sometimes, it looks to me like a goat would do better than what they put in.
[00:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 New Optimization Chip Tackles Machine Learning, 5G Routing - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:10] <exec> 08└─That's a really good question. An ASIC will be fastest, if the task is suited to a bunch of logic. And many companies are doing a combination of ASICs (FPGA), CPU, TPU, GPU, whatever else, gives the most computing power. But you need a really good overall system architect- someone who understands bo...
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[00:47:12] <exec> 08└─Sore subject. Of course they have enough power in traffic light controllers to help traffic flow smoothly. I've heard in a few places, including here, that whoever the people are who design roads, signs, signals, etc., WANT to slow people down. Many lights in my area, especially after 11 PM, will tu...
[00:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 New Optimization Chip Tackles Machine Learning, 5G Routing - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:14] <exec> 08└─If Musk is to be believed, he hired the modern equivalent of Cray to design the Tesla self-driving hardware. See recent video press conference on autonomy, where Musk claims they have several years head start on their competition.
[00:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 New Optimization Chip Tackles Machine Learning, 5G Routing - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:17] <exec> 08└─Is is NOT to be believed.
[00:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06IBM Plans to Commercialize a 58-Qubit Quantum Computer - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:57] <exec> 08└─A real marketer would convince you that 20 quibit is the new 50 :)
[00:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Plans to Commercialize a 58-Qubit Quantum Computer - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:59] <exec> 08└─A bit and a qubit are very different things. 50 qubits would have factoral 50 computational outcomes. You could easily break 4k RSA keys with that. Assuming of course this is a general purpose quantum computer and not yet another annealer
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[01:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:57] <exec> 08└─More expensive shit to break after a few years.
[01:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I really don't get why you'd take something extremely simple, inexpensive, and effective and complicate the fuck out of it at great expense and zero improvement.
[01:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:01] <exec> 08└─Without the context your words are arguing against electric cars :-)
[01:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Disagree) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:03] <exec> 08└─Have you looked at car mirrors recently ? - mirror - motor - camera - blinker - blind spot light - defroster I'm probably forgetting something. The point is a modern "mirror" is a >$800 assembly. Camera-on-a-stick is a lot cheaper BOM, and a lot less wind drag (will it be a cheaper repair? LOL!)
[01:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:05] <exec> 08└─I went into the article expecting to hate it, imagining some screen in the center of the dashboard, but after watching the video, I like it. They have the screens to the left and right just like mirrors are placed except inside the windows (no frost!). Having an electric car, I can also appreciate t...
[01:47:07] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 223 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:08] <exec> 08└─Like a lazy fuck, I just watched the video. When I went back to RTFA: Honda argues that the tech reduces aerodynamic drag by 90% compared to conventional door mirrors, for an overall 3.8% improvement for the entire vehicle.
[01:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:10] <exec> 08└─>>> and zero improvement Repeat after me: Coefficient of Drag, air resistance, and range - perhaps as much as a 3% gain in range. And better coverage than the standard side view mirror provides...
[01:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:12] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, the article I read (Motor Trend?) last week noted that this system isn't legal in USA, at least now now. So the camera-mirror system will only be available in other markets. Maybe Honda plan to lobby to change the rules to allow cameras? Just watched the video, another difference is tha...
[01:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:14] <exec> 08└─If you try it, make sure to see what happens in really bright sunny conditions, facing in different directions. Many screens aren't bright enough to be visible when the sun is in the wrong place (try reading a laptop outdoors on a sunny day...)
[01:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 New Optimization Chip Tackles Machine Learning, 5G Routing - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:27] <exec> 08└─It is intentional to get people to speed less. No long running start to get going fast. Is it safer than the rear end and red light runner accidents it causes? I'd wager the study was never done. Incidentally a traffic circle slows people down from every direction at all times instead of just half t...
[01:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quake II to Get Free Real-Time Raytracing Update on June 6 - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:34] <exec> 08└─Boop!
[01:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stronger Than Aluminum, A Heavily Altered Wood Cools Passively - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:50] <exec> 08└─But wait there's more -- if you live in a place with winter you can double your heating costs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gah -- I really hated the way TFS was written. Secondly, this might be great the closer you get to the equator, but personally, I'm thinking of painting my house a dark color so it can abso...
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[01:47:52] <exec> 08└─Read the paper (linked from tfa), doesn't work very well with cloud cover. Thus best results in Phoenix.
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[01:47:54] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the effects are in the crystal structure, so it might be more "3D" than normal paint. Much better story here, https://science.sciencemag.org [sciencemag.org] Speaking of which, don't put this white paneling anywhere near the Army, "If it moves, salute it. If it doesn...
[01:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Plans to Commercialize a 58-Qubit Quantum Computer - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:17] <exec> 08└─Ahhh, thanks for that. I was not familiar with that quote.
[01:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:57] <exec> 08└─Well, the audio suggests that pilots are simply having fun locking on the "object". They do not even attempt to intercept let alone behave seriously. They are there to protect the Motherland, aren't they? I have heard real intercepts a couple of times on my aircraft radio and they are dead serious t...
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[01:49:44] <exec> 08└─It's worth reminding people that the USA is not a democracy. "The people" don't vote for the President - that's the job of the Electoral College, who only vote in line with the general election results by long-standing convention. They have absolutely no obligation to vote the same way as the public...
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[02:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:17] <exec> 08└─Mine's just a piece of silvered glass in a plastic housing that you adjust by reaching out the window.
[02:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:19] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily. An electric motor powered vehicle is fundamentally less complex than an internal combustion engine one. What you do with it after that is another story entirely though.
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[02:47:21] <exec> 08└─I wonder if it can see the rear wheel of the car with some infrared or visible lighting so I can park in the city 1" from the curb at night without risking $100 worth of damage to my $1000/corner wheels. Fuck rim guards and dickheads that park 2 feet from the curb in super skinny downtown streets.
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[02:47:23] <exec> 08└─> $1000/corner wheels Donks? How does your vehicle ride, compared to the original wheel/tire combination?
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[02:48:00] <exec> 08└─> painting my house a dark color so it can absorb a little heat rather than reflect it. Take a look at adding south facing windows (maybe a nice bay window add-on)? I believe that in most cases this will get you a lot more solar gain than anything you can do with normal paints...unless you live some...
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[02:48:02] <exec> 08└─You can even make knives made out of paper https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] It's a pretty tough material, and you can even temper it afterward.
[02:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Baltimore And Beyond, A Stolen NSA Tool Wreaks Havoc - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:53] <exec> 08└─The States elect the President. Because we are a nation that is made up out of United States. Not all power resides at the Federal level, nor should it. It's perfectly appropriate that different states have different ways of picking their delegates to choose the President. That's called keeping demo...
[02:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Baltimore And Beyond, A Stolen NSA Tool Wreaks Havoc - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:54] <exec> 08└─To be fair, not directly electing the President doesn't make any real difference as to whether your country is a democracy or not. We don't directly elect our Prime Minister either, but if the parties play fast and loose with what the people have voted for they get punished hard at the next electio...
[02:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06In Baltimore And Beyond, A Stolen NSA Tool Wreaks Havoc - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:56] <exec> 08└─who only vote in line with the general election results by long-standing convention
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[03:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Single Transistor Could Perform AND/OR Operations - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:03] <exec> 08└─I'm most confused by how a transistor works at all. A transistor works with electricity. Electricity is either on.. or off. You have voltage, or you don't. How do you say, "IF there is voltage, THEN apply voltage." ? How do you get "if" out of literally presence or absence? There's no "if electricit...
[03:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:24] <exec> 08└─Even if all those items fail I still have a functional mirror.
[03:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 New Optimization Chip Tackles Machine Learning, 5G Routing - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:37] <exec> 08└─What you're saying is right, so this rant is directed at the govt. and other's who think this is a good thing. I'm not a fan of traffic circles because they force you to slow down (waste energy unless you have regenerative braking) no matter what the traffic volume is. It is NOT fair, just, nor righ...
[03:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 New Optimization Chip Tackles Machine Learning, 5G Routing - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:39] <exec> 08└─Application specific chips perform better at specific applications, ok we know that. Can they show benefit as programmable chips? Meaning, do these things boast performance improvements over FPGAs that were programmed for the profile task? If not, then no news here. If so, great!
[03:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stronger Than Aluminum, A Heavily Altered Wood Cools Passively - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:06] <exec> 08└─That's a good channel [youtube.com]. If he can just make a knife out of obsidian he'll be legendary.
[03:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stronger Than Aluminum, A Heavily Altered Wood Cools Passively - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:08] <exec> 08└─Meh. Only see it used to cut cucumber... I'd like to see it being used to cut strips off a sheet of paper - that's better at showing how sharp it is. There are other ways of course but a paper knife cutting paper is a good start.
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[03:48:32] <exec> 08└─And at the time, he was probably right.
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[03:49:13] <exec> 08└─Fact one: The SR71 is still considered the fastest man-made aircraft (excluding spacecraft), but it's at least 60 year old technology. Fact two: The future is already here, it's just not widely distributed yet. Military secrets take even longer. Fact three: The top speed of the SR71 is still classif...
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[03:50:04] <exec> 08└─your security walrus says yes [politico.com] Not everyone agree “If you’re covered in gasoline, be careful throwing matches,” said Michael Sulmeyer, a former cyber-policy adviser to Obama administration Defense Secretary Ash Carter.
[03:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrkaos [997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Under the Dome: Fears Pacific Nuclear 'Coffin' is Leaking - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah. We could put this into breeder reactors and re-burn it like France does.
[03:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Accessible MySQL Databases Targeted by GandCrab Ransomware - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:24] <exec> 08└─You're totally right that the internet-facing 3306es are stupid misconfiguration. I think we're eye to eye on that. But I don't agree about "who were impacted by this" unless you mean by this particular actor under analysis, and not the general vector. The specific actor is just Shodaning for 3360 a...
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[03:52:25] <exec> 08└─Lol. You say that but I fondly recall notepad.exe escalation. Oh for those simpler days! Thanks for bringing a genuine smile to my face. =) I hope you have a lovely day, and think back on bytecode of yore.
[03:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Accessible MySQL Databases Targeted by GandCrab Ransomware - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:27] <exec> 08└─Those "impacted" that I referred to were the folks whose MySQL instances were compromised, not the malicious actor(s). I'm not sure how you'd think otherwise.
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[04:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single Transistor Could Perform AND/OR Operations - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:14] <exec> 08└─In the digital world we think of 1 or 0, on or off, and we design circuits and systems to behave this way. But the dirty little secret is that pretty much all of the digital circuits are analog under the hood. We decide what voltages constitute a digital 0 and 1. So for the most common digital logic...
[04:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single Transistor Could Perform AND/OR Operations - 1295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:16] <exec> 08└─You can kind of think of a transister much like an electromagnetic switch. Suppose you had a single wire, with power applied to one end and an iron connector in the middle on a spring that keeps the circuit open; so electricity can't flow. + __________/ _________ - Then you place an electromagnet ju...
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[04:47:37] <exec> 08└─Get yourself some nice curb feelers. https://live.staticflickr.com [staticflickr.com]
[04:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we should all be driving Model Ts. All that complexity in modern cars isn't needed.
[04:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:41] <exec> 08└─Try night, when several long lines of cars are shining their headlights into those mirrors. Will the screen show anything useful?
[04:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:43] <exec> 08└─A large part of it isn't. Go learn the difference between luxury and sufficiency then come back and rejoin the conversation.
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[04:48:27] <exec> 08└─Take a look at adding south facing windows (maybe a nice bay window add-on)? I believe that in most cases this will get you a lot more solar gain
[04:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Plans to Commercialize a 58-Qubit Quantum Computer - 1095 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:52] <exec> 08└─No. 58 qubits is nowhere near enough to break any RSA keys that were ever in use. To use Shor's algorithm to factor a number you have to have at least twice the number of qubits as there are bits in the key, probably a little bit more because you want some error correction too. With only 58 qubits y...
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[04:48:54] <exec> 08└─But here we're talking temperatures rather closer to liquid helium rather than dry ice or even liquid nitrogen. Getting cooling to only a few fractions of a kelvin above absolute zero is mighty expensive. 70 to 80 K is not hard. But when you're talking less than 1 K, that's rather much more difficul...
[04:49:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects - 45 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:09] <exec> 08└─It would be so interesting if these were UFOs
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[05:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Plans to Launch 'GlobalCoin' Cryptocurrency in 2020 - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:02] <exec> 08└─I wonder about this. Not at the fact that Facebook wants to own your financial transactions as well as everything else in your life - that's to be expected. I wonder whether Facebook users will trust Facebook enough to handle their money. The tide is turning against FB and Zuckerberg, and their repe...
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[05:47:13] <exec> 08└─My only thought to add regarding explaining transistors would be that in very general terms a transistor could be thought of similar to a rudder, if there is some powerful input available it can be guided (which direction the power goes) using a relatively weaker input. The transistor can be used li...
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[05:48:23] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking of painting my house a dark color so it can absorb a little heat rather than reflect it.
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[05:48:24] <exec> 08└─well, you do have to take into account that nothing toxic is leaked in rivers etc, and the explosion itself will not damage much more than the building.
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[05:51:07] <exec> 08└─I expect there will be a few highly touted earnings leaders, just like every time around the hype-cycle, but aside from a few exceptional cases people are not going to out-earn a job much less a business. Charity is big business, but only for things like natural disasters so far as I can tell.
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[06:47:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I think facebook will profit handsomely from this, because for every person against them currently there are is at least 1/2 a rube to be parted from their money. And that is still a lot of money on the table to fleece out of rubes.
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[06:47:22] <exec> 08└─three layers of silicon, alternating in electrical charge, the charge property is determined by the chemical composition of the silicon when 'doped' by different elements. One terminal connects to each layer. apply the appropriate charge to the middle layer and you negate the charge difference betwe...
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[06:47:23] <exec> 08└─I'm most confused...
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[06:47:26] <exec> 08└─That is all.
[06:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:50] <exec> 08└─I normally have the side mirrors set way out, so I can barely see the side of my car.
[06:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:52] <exec> 08└─So is mine, but we are a shrinking minority. Most cars on the road today have very expensive decorations on their side, ideally positioned for sudden destruction, yet seemingly useless to the person in the driver seat. I want the camera solution to become ubiquitous, because SUV and pick-up mirrors...
[06:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:54] <exec> 08└─Sufficiency ? Sufficiency ??? TMB is anti-American ! Burn the commie at the stake ! More seriously, the existence of luxury car brands (Lexus, Mercedes & co, not the exotics) is a testament to the silliness of human beings. When I drive the wife's Rav4 (7-seat), I can't quite understand why anyone w...
[06:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 New Optimization Chip Tackles Machine Learning, 5G Routing - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:09] <exec> 08└─Traffic circles have a narrow use case. 2 lanes crossing 2 lanes with light traffic signal volume down through 4 way stop but not including 2 way stop signs. Speed limits already set low due to other conditions, 35 mph seems like a good upper limit. 0 person time wasted sitting at lights and far les...
[06:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quake II to Get Free Real-Time Raytracing Update on June 6 - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:17] <exec> 08└─I saw the video. There's not much difference. The TTC is on shadows and water surfaces as far as I could tell. Maybe someone else here has seen the video and noticed something I missed.
[06:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quake II to Get Free Real-Time Raytracing Update on June 6 - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:19] <exec> 08└─Damn autocorrect. TTC was supposed to be RTX.
[06:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stronger Than Aluminum, A Heavily Altered Wood Cools Passively - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:45] <exec> 08└─Less need for AC
[06:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stronger Than Aluminum, A Heavily Altered Wood Cools Passively - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:46] <exec> 08└─You cold.
[06:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Baltimore And Beyond, A Stolen NSA Tool Wreaks Havoc - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:45] <exec> 08└─Troll Obviously there are some deep psychological problems to overcome first. You people gotta take the first step... As much as you like to believe otherwise, your battle is with yourselves, not the messenger.
[06:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Under the Dome: Fears Pacific Nuclear 'Coffin' is Leaking - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:48] <exec> 08└─Compared to refining their own Pu, some people will volunteer a lot of their fellow citizens (those who want to leave the camp for a few days) to sort through any pile of rubble.
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[07:48:01] <exec> 08└─Better than a mirror reflecting the sun straight into my eyes when driving east at sunset.
[07:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stronger Than Aluminum, A Heavily Altered Wood Cools Passively - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:53] <exec> 08└─Hydrogen peroxide is one of the most poisonous things on the planet. That is why most organisms, including humans, have some sort of evolved resistance to it. It is also a bleach, and will destroy many materials it touches with oxidation. That stuff is nasty and the only reason most people think it...
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[07:50:03] <exec> 08└─Interesting idea except for one thing Navy pilots reported to their superiors that the objects had no visible engine or infrared exhaust plumes, but that"
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[08:47:04] <exec> 08└─amirite
[08:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beer Archaeologists are Reviving Ancient Ales - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:05] <exec> 08└─Piss [oxforddictionaries.com] is Australian for beer (or any alcoholic beverage that gets someone pissed [oxforddictionaries.com] Is "spit" a word for beer, or alcoholic beverage, anywhere in the world?
[08:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook Plans to Launch 'GlobalCoin' Cryptocurrency in 2020 - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:15] <exec> 08└─Will FB provide a discount for ads purchased in FBCoin? Is that how they'll try to get companies to buy invest in FBCoin? And if they do, will FB add an indicator to the ad that "This business accepts FBCoin"?
[08:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Facebook Plans to Launch 'GlobalCoin' Cryptocurrency in 2020 - 1306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:17] <exec> 08└─For a company that seems to be desperate to avoid any form of accountability and with such a poor record of handling data I think this is more likely to be a trainwreck waiting to happen. Sure, it's probably going to work as a PAYG type scheme so you can "top up" your Facebook coin account and manag...
[08:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single Transistor Could Perform AND/OR Operations - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:31] <exec> 08└─Yes, you've described a BJT- Bipolar Junction Transistor, and they're used in all kinds of circuits, including TTL logic. But most of RAM, CPU, GPU, etc., are MOSFET (metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor).
[08:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:00] <exec> 08└─The point is a modern "mirror" is a >$800 assembly.
[08:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stronger Than Aluminum, A Heavily Altered Wood Cools Passively - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:55] <exec> 08└─Do the math carefully, as it is usually more expensive (per unit of heat exchange) to cool a building, rather than to heat one. This means that for most places, even those in higher latitudes, a darker house will cost you more money. Even though they cool for a shorter time than they heat, the diffe...
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[08:50:05] <exec> 08└─US AIR FORCE AIRCRAFT IDENTIFICATION CHART [imgur.com]
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[09:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Plans to Launch 'GlobalCoin' Cryptocurrency in 2020 - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:20] <exec> 08└─Granted, I didn't search too hard, but I haven't found any technical details on this. Presumably, Facebook wants to have absolute control of the currency. So it's probably not going to be proof-of-work or even proof-of-stake, but rather something directly controlled by Facebook servers. This will le...
[09:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:04] <exec> 08└─... an overall 3.8% improvement for the entire vehicle. ... That's worth it in my book -- an extra 3.8 miles on a 100 mile battery.
[09:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:09] <exec> 08└─Manmade planes, using UFO technology.
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[10:47:17] <exec> 08└─Arch-ale-agonists methinketh
[10:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beer Archaeologists are Reviving Ancient Ales - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:19] <exec> 08└─"Reviving Ancient Ales", I expect they will be pretty stale by now. Lukewarm too.
[10:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Plans to Launch 'GlobalCoin' Cryptocurrency in 2020 - 1070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:31] <exec> 08└─Most implementations of crypto-tokens don't actually need a blockchain and are really just leaning on the buzzword for generate hype, so nothing new for FB there. It *could* be proof of work though, if squandering CPU cycles on the JavaScript necessary to display ads counts, or maybe you could have...
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[10:49:10] <exec> 08└─My home has exactly zero cooling cost, but decidedly non-zero heating cost. However, I doubt that painting it black would save energy; quite the opposite, it would make it cool down faster in the night. OTOH, in regions where air condition is required, it might make sense to paint the pole-facing si...
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[11:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 1) 02 - 06W3C and the WHATWG Sign an Agreement to Collaborate on a Single Version of HTML and DOM - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:01] <exec> 08└─The fantastic thing about standards is that we have so many of them to choose from so they are proposing a standard that changes over time?
[11:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06W3C and the WHATWG Sign an Agreement to Collaborate on a Single Version of HTML and DOM - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:03] <exec> 08└─A unified definition of shit is still shit.
[11:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06W3C and the WHATWG Sign an Agreement to Collaborate on a Single Version of HTML and DOM - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:05] <exec> 08└─Well, HTML changed from 4 to 4.1 to 5 ... so I would imagine that continued development will produce new snapshots of the "living standard".
[11:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06W3C and the WHATWG Sign an Agreement to Collaborate on a Single Version of HTML and DOM - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:07] <exec> 08└─How can you make sure you get the freedom to design something properly and beat your competitor to the market? By "living standards" of course and being part of the team to create it.
[11:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Compounds Found Which Illuminate and Kill Drug Resistant Gram Negative Bacteria - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:16] <exec> 08└─Just how much will this miracle treatment cost us frogs?
[11:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Compounds Found Which Illuminate and Kill Drug Resistant Gram Negative Bacteria - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:18] <exec> 08└─Look like Sheffield is in the possession of one unique veritas. The question that raises to be begged - will it set us free**? *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Univerity(sic) of...
[11:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Plans to Launch 'GlobalCoin' Cryptocurrency in 2020 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:40] <exec> 08└─Not sure exactly how its going to work as yet buuuuut it will be delish!
[11:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:25] <exec> 08└─It's new and fancy so consumertards love it. It will also break after a few years and you will have to pay $$$ to have it fixed, so manufacturers love it. There are too many people still out there driving reliable cars that don't need more than an occasional oil change.
[11:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:26] <exec> 08└─Right, but mine's going to stay just a piece of silvered glass in a plastic housing that you adjust by reaching out the window, even if I have to remove features that come from the factory. I don't want complex, secondary-but-necessary features designed in such a way that I can't easily repair or re...
[11:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quake II to Get Free Real-Time Raytracing Update on June 6 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:52] <exec> 08└─What I am hearing here is that it doesn't matter how much you polish the brown polygons.. ?
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[11:49:23] <exec> 08└─yes. and if you expose it to the atmosphere it releases oxygen and turns into harmless water very fast, so problem solved.
[11:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:34] <exec> 08└─It serves videos without javascript, so I'd say that it doesn't "need" javascript. I use jwz's youtubedown (a self-patched one with extra features admittedly), but other downloaders are available.
[11:51:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In Baltimore And Beyond, A Stolen NSA Tool Wreaks Havoc - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:28] <exec> 08└─And since corporate directs tax and other "dark" money towards the NSA, they(NSA) will comply.
[11:51:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In Baltimore And Beyond, A Stolen NSA Tool Wreaks Havoc - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:29] <exec> 08└─The NSA is *part* of the US government.
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[12:47:02] <exec> 08└─The industry is working to develop "trusted AI that is responsible, that it is mindful, and safeguards human rights," she said.
[12:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:03] <exec> 08└─All brogrammers must be registered with the state. Unsanctioned AI research will result in your execution by SWAT team.
[12:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:05] <exec> 08└─Any AI I have to deal with damned well better be biased. If it's not I can get results just as useful out of an RNG. What its biases are is the issue not that it's biased.
[12:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Single Transistor Could Perform AND/OR Operations - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:01] <exec> 08└─Pretty much the most useless answer to the original question, but the highest rated.
[12:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I was talking actual luxury though. Anything added entirely for comfort or showing off rather than functionality. You know, like air-conditioning and a radio.
[12:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:36] <exec> 08└─Toyota still offers that sort of longevity. Mine's pushing 270K miles at the moment and still runs like a champ except for the passenger-side door lock guts that recently went south and I haven't gotten around to fixing yet since I don't sit on that side.
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[12:48:39] <exec> 08└─> mirror reflecting the sun straight into my eyes But it's easy to re-aim the mirror to get the sun out of your eyes temporarily, while still having it show at least something useful about what is behind you. The camera can't be re-aimed, only options mentioned in tfl are normal and wide-angle. This...
[12:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:41] <exec> 08└─I don't get it. Yes, many people live in the city.. fine... and so there are all these street lights at night. Now.. there are two things here, well three, but two city related. First? There is power savings, and second there is "saving the night" movement. Those two mean some cities are turning off...
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[12:48:43] <exec> 08└─> Toyota still offers that sort of longevity. Mine's pushing 270K miles Somewhere along the way, Toyota lost their way. What year is yours? One explanation I've read is that, when Toyota was about to pass GM as the world's sales leader, they changed their management focus to sales...and let their fo...
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[12:48:45] <exec> 08└─In the early 1990s, a similar reduction in the exterior size of the mirrors (and similar air drag reduction) was invented and patented. It uses a prism system instead of a simple mirror, https://patents.google.com [google.com] Unfortunately, the inventor (who I knew slightly) d...
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[12:49:43] <exec> 08└─We could design floating trees of this stuff and put it in Arctic waters. That might draw off enough heat to keep the ice frozen beneath it, and possibly help repair habitats up there.
[12:49:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] 02 - 06IBM Plans to Commercialize a 58-Qubit Quantum Computer - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:52] <exec> 08└─they will require a working environment with a temperature of -273 degrees Celsius
[12:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:57] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the Loc-Nar [fandom.com] (mature content).
[12:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:59] <exec> 08└─Seems that this time they finally succesfully removed the homing device from those salvaged Goa'uld death gliders. * [fandom.com] At least they keep tracking that pesky Apophis mothership still disguised as an asteroid [wikipedia.org].
[12:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:01] <exec> 08└─he doesn't have any blood. it's in his name!
[12:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:03] <exec> 08└─you know you're among geeks when they spend more time arguing about how to play a video without enabling javascript than they do about the frickin' UFOs
[12:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06E. Coli Created Using Synthetic DNA - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:05] <exec> 08└─...designer pathogens the like we've never seen before, oh the possibilities are (almost) endless.
[12:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poland Challenges EU Copyright Directive - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:30] <exec> 08└─of course they don't want to pay for copyrighted material. they don't have the money. why do you think they call it "Po-land?"
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[13:47:13] <exec> 08└─Indeed, I would hope that it is biased against harming humans. I think AIs that lack that bias are far more dangerous than AIs with that bias.
[13:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:14] <exec> 08└─And it will do anything in its power to prevent other AIs from taking over the world.
[13:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:16] <exec> 08└─The scarier truth is that AI might be unbaised and that it is society that is creating substandard humans in the protected classes and substandard women in the same way that helicopter parenting is creating neurotic individuals who are unable to live independently, and saying that AI is biased is a...
[13:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:18] <exec> 08└─How can an AI be safe when the intelligence part is something we do not fully understand? Taking machine learning as an example, we may understand the processors, the principles and the math, but we don't fully understand how the knowledge and 'decision making' (aka pattern recognition) are encoded...
[13:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06W3C and the WHATWG Sign an Agreement to Collaborate on a Single Version of HTML and DOM - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:29] <exec> 08└─Write the code then write the documentation. That way the code always matches the documents. * * From a wise old tech writer
[13:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06W3C and the WHATWG Sign an Agreement to Collaborate on a Single Version of HTML and DOM - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:31] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't it be possible - and better from an engineering point of view - to make the two orthogonal? One standard to define the meaning of elements in a hierarchical tree (html) and one to manipulate said tree (dom) [and one of course to rule them all, but that is, as always, Google]. The dom does...
[13:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06W3C and the WHATWG Sign an Agreement to Collaborate on a Single Version of HTML and DOM - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:33] <exec> 08└─It will be okay as long as it is suitably polished prior to official release.
[13:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:58] <exec> 08└─Does E. Honda drive a Honda e?
[13:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:59] <exec> 08└─2k1. Yeah, I've heard they've been slipping a bit but with as far ahead in quality as they were it's not as bad as it could be.
[13:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stronger Than Aluminum, A Heavily Altered Wood Cools Passively - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:58] <exec> 08└─This. Plus the atmosphere is already heavily reducing due to all that oxygen in the first place. A little more that decomposes rapidly into normal atmospheric components is not going to have a significant affect.
[13:50:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EvilSS [1456] 02 - 06IBM Plans to Commercialize a 58-Qubit Quantum Computer - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:12] <exec> 08└─Yea, and one government will go "Nope! You are not selling those to anyone but us!" Guess which one.
[13:50:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects - 740 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:51] <exec> 08└─You seem to presume that our craft are capable of shooting the objects down. Not knowing what the objects are, it's impossible to say whether they can be shot down. Obviously something is there, but how will a missile, a bullet, or a bomb affect - ohhhh - some phantom electrical charge dancing on th...
[13:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:16] <exec> 08└─You forgot to mention that [redacted]. Oh, and [redacted]. All in all, [redacted].
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[14:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:06] <exec> 08└─Too many warning labels on products, and no one reads them. California could reduce the number of labels drastically by labeling the people instead. The label could be very simple: "Warning, living is known to result in certain death". /s
[14:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:08] <exec> 08└─S'truth. They really should skip warning labels and bans and just assign everyone a minder with a button to their shock collar already to follow them around all day and tell them what's not on the approved life choices list.
[14:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:10] <exec> 08└─California. Where you're encouraged to puff a peter, but condemned for puffing a cigaretts.
[14:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:12] <exec> 08└─Puffing is old skool. [vice.com]
[14:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:15] <exec> 08└─Letting food stamps pay for this along with other junk food. There are no excuses. WIC can limit what is purchased, why can't food stamps?
[14:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:17] <exec> 08└─...misleading messages,” said Steven Maviglio, a spokesman for the American Beverage Assn.
[14:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06W3C and the WHATWG Sign an Agreement to Collaborate on a Single Version of HTML and DOM - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:44] <exec> 08└─How can you make sure you get the freedom to design something properly and beat your competitor to the market? By "living standards" of course and being part of the team to create it.
[14:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Compounds Found Which Illuminate and Kill Drug Resistant Gram Negative Bacteria - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:53] <exec> 08└─It will only cost you 20% of the $50,000 price they charge the insurance company, so don't you worry a bit.
[14:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beer Archaeologists are Reviving Ancient Ales - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:04] <exec> 08└─> Piss is Australian for beer Funnily enough, it's also English for Australian beer.
[14:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Plans to Launch 'GlobalCoin' Cryptocurrency in 2020 - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:18] <exec> 08└─> Meanwhile, I wonder what they plan to do with the existing cryptocurrency with the same name [globalcoin.info]. Buy it? The linked site claims, "more than 500 mining machines" which sounds like chump change to FB.
[14:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Plans to Launch 'GlobalCoin' Cryptocurrency in 2020 - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:20] <exec> 08└─Hopefully nations/governments will intervene, as they tend to view losing monetary control rather dimly. But I fully expect FB to climb in bed with them to achieve what they want. So I'm not that hopeful, sadly...
[14:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:16] <exec> 08└─from tfa: "As lighting conditions change, the brightness levels on the interior displays adjust."
[14:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stronger Than Aluminum, A Heavily Altered Wood Cools Passively - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:17] <exec> 08└─Heh, accusing me of hemispheric bias? By now the southern hemisphere should be used to the north-south flip of anything solar that originates in the more populous northern hemisphere...
[14:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stronger Than Aluminum, A Heavily Altered Wood Cools Passively - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:18] <exec> 08└─There is black, and then there is black. At visible wavelengths, black is a good solar absorber. At the long wavelengths radiated (at night, or anytime really) by a warm surface, the same visible black color may or may not be "black" for infrared wavelengths. This varies all over the map with differ...
[14:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In Baltimore And Beyond, A Stolen NSA Tool Wreaks Havoc - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:31] <exec> 08└─There might be a case or two like that, but they generally follow orders like everybody else. It's not really a thing, it's their job.
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[15:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:19] <exec> 08└─Devils advocate. Isn't that sugar? So shouldn't this warning go on anything that has sugar in it? Isn't that the misleading point, that it makes it seem like ONLY pop/soda/coke with added sugar is the problem?
[15:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:20] <exec> 08└─How tiny will the warning be or are they making the cans bigger?
[15:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:22] <exec> 08└─They'll put it on a sticker, like they do with the ingredients of Mexican Coke.
[15:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:25] <exec> 08└─Soft drinks is the only kind of food that is full of sugar AND consumed by liters per day.
[15:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:27] <exec> 08└─I just hope they can read...
[15:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:29] <exec> 08└─That's only because it's the only food item that's measured in liters.
[15:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:31] <exec> 08└─Can't take care of themselves, can they? Better mind the Russians [newyorker.com]... *sheesh!* Fucking racist bullshit!
[15:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:47] <exec> 08└─Ah, but who gets to define what exactly qualifies as "human"? I believe that's been a recurring plot in SF - I clearly recall episodes of both Star Trek and Babylon 5 based on it.
[15:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:48] <exec> 08└─The problem is that the simplest solution, as with so many things, is of course to kill all humans. No humans to create new AIs, no possibility of a new AI taking over the world. And so long as the "safeguard" AI only destroys humanity without attempting to take control of anything but the means of...
[15:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:50] <exec> 08└─We could say the same thing about human intelligence, which we don't really understand at all. It seems as though a "safe" AI could be made, provided we were able to train the network such that "Keep your human operators fully informed of all your plans" and "Do not implement any plans without opera...
[15:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03messymerry [6369] (Score: 1) 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:52] <exec> 08└─And all this fine talk while the government spooks sneak around weaponizing every algorithm they can get their bloody hands on. I for one am pleased that Mr. Smith, my AI overlord will be bipolar... Just kidding, ;-D
[15:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:55] <exec> 08└─Complete agreement, and I'll augment: ...we may understand the processors...
[15:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:57] <exec> 08└─This is the right answer. Deep Learning is very, very good at finding patterns and it does so with the easiest and best shortcuts. Thus if you feed it headshots of the perpetrators of all violent firearm homicides, you should not be shocked when it becomes biased toward identifying young black men;...
[15:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06W3C and the WHATWG Sign an Agreement to Collaborate on a Single Version of HTML and DOM - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:12] <exec> 08└─What is the chance that the single standard won't include ALL the WORST features from both sources? Negative? Thought so.
[15:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beer Archaeologists are Reviving Ancient Ales - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:34] <exec> 08└─That explains why my American girlfriend left me when I said I had a piss and a fag.
[15:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Single Transistor Could Perform AND/OR Operations - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:06] <exec> 08└─That's a PNP transistor. An NPN sets a ground path, then there's PN and 4 lead transistors.
[15:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single Transistor Could Perform AND/OR Operations - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:07] <exec> 08└─Great example of how you ACs are a cancer: your comment gives no useful information, nor contributes in any helpful or positive way. AC = piss on parade. Do you have a question, or are you just so full of crap you have to dump it anywhere you find an opportunity?
[15:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Single Transistor Could Perform AND/OR Operations - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:09] <exec> 08└─think of transistors simplistically as voltage controlled variable resistors. in a MOSFET, applying voltage to the gate (different FET styles have different forward bias requirements) changes the conductivity of the main channel (source to drain). In digital logic, the main channel is driven to eith...
[15:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quake II to Get Free Real-Time Raytracing Update on June 6 - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:17] <exec> 08└─I understand nviddy wants to move products but what's in it for me? Honest q.
[15:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poland Challenges EU Copyright Directive - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:38] <exec> 08└─Have hope. They're trying to legislate against reality and it never works. Reality just won't obey human law. I would say also that this is politicians who may very well know better taking the bribes of the rich idiots who refuse to accept reality. The politicians take the money and pass the laws th...
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[16:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Buy Cancelled All Galaxy Fold Preorders - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:02] <exec> 08└─Don't call it the Galaxy Fold 2. Instead use the convention of adding more 'o's to it . . . Galaxy Fold Galaxy Foold Galaxy Fooold . . . Galaxy Fooooooold etc As I said before on SN, I want the tablet to fold eight times so that it can fit in a thimble, a micro SD case, or a necklace charm. Like Geo...
[16:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Best Buy Cancelled All Galaxy Fold Preorders - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:03] <exec> 08└─Galaxy Bi-Fold.
[16:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Best Buy Cancelled All Galaxy Fold Preorders - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:05] <exec> 08└─First to market, first to recall and first to bin. They call this type of thing bleeding edge technology for a reason.
[16:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Buy Cancelled All Galaxy Fold Preorders - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:07] <exec> 08└─Also note the early adopter $2,000 price tag. It was an expensive beta test.
[16:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Buy Cancelled All Galaxy Fold Preorders - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:10] <exec> 08└─An expensive beat test, that apparently hadn't met the real world, yet. As it seemed to break quite easily.
[16:47:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:21] <exec> 08└─...misleading messages,” said Steven Maviglio, a spokesman for the American Beverage Assn.
[16:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:30] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter how tiny most of the warnings are as long as there is one warning large enough to read . . . WARNING this product packaging contains many micro printed warning messages in case you are interested.
[16:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:32] <exec> 08└─Solution: stop bundling the sugar into the soda. Sell the sugar separately and allow the end user to add as much as they could possibly ever want, to customize it to their individual taste. Now the soda no longer needs a warning label.
[16:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:34] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter how tiny most of the warnings are as long as there is one warning large enough to read . . .
[16:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:37] <exec> 08└─I'd say "people of Walmart" need labels. Obesity due to poor diet cuts across the racial spectrum.
[16:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:39] <exec> 08└─They really should skip warning labels and bans and just assign everyone a minder
[16:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:59] <exec> 08└─"we're going to raise a flag if you're using one of those protected data categories" how about "we're not going to allow the USE of those 'protected' data categories"
[16:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:01] <exec> 08└─I would prefer Agent Smith be upgraded to tri-polar. And I'd spring for the virtual multiple personalities option.
[16:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:03] <exec> 08└─It may be easier to get biases out of AI than it is to get biases out of people.
[16:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:05] <exec> 08└─Not, say, shitty self-driving cars suddenly engaging and ramming their owners up against the wall of their garage?
[16:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:08] <exec> 08└─And many of the stories in Asimov's original "I Robot" had the theme "How do you define human?". Sometimes it was a bit buried, but it was usually there.
[16:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:10] <exec> 08└─I accept that you believe that you are stating facts, but you aren't. They a slightly over represented in that group due to gang violence. Another reason they are over represented is that they get arrested for things that others don't. Another reason they are over represented is that most of them ca...
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[16:48:12] <exec> 08└─Jack Williamson "With folded hands".
[16:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:14] <exec> 08└─An unbiased AI would make random choices. Biases are a necessary part of reasoning. Think of it as the Bayesian priors, and realize that while they cause theoretical problems, they are essential to the theory being useful. When I see something unsupported in mid-air I am biased towards an expectatio...
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[16:48:30] <exec> 08└─It's not like anyone will adhere anyway.
[16:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06W3C and the WHATWG Sign an Agreement to Collaborate on a Single Version of HTML and DOM - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:32] <exec> 08└─The market is strong, time to start a turd polish manufacturing facility.
[16:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Compounds Found Which Illuminate and Kill Drug Resistant Gram Negative Bacteria - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:43] <exec> 08└─Will it be possible to prevent this new product from being mass produced and given to all and sundry? The whole reason we're in this mess is because people used existing antibacterials as preventative instead of as the last line of defense they were intended for. The situation we are now in was the...
[16:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beer Archaeologists are Reviving Ancient Ales - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:56] <exec> 08└─"Boston Dogfish Beer Head Company should patent all the ancient ales." New patent troll in the house!
[16:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beer Archaeologists are Reviving Ancient Ales - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:58] <exec> 08└─Don't be an ale-pologist
[16:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beer Archaeologists are Reviving Ancient Ales - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:00] <exec> 08└─The basic ingredients I think we can be pretty sure of.
[16:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single Transistor Could Perform AND/OR Operations - 1962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:34] <exec> 08└─That's a great analogy. Silicon is called a "semiconductor" because just like the electromagnetic switch (relay) you described, we can control the flow of electrons through it by introducing an electric field somewhere in the middle of the flow. The physics is far too much to go into here. There are...
[16:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:17] <exec> 08└─Gotta be an official "antique", or they will hound you with emission compliance.
[16:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 New Optimization Chip Tackles Machine Learning, 5G Routing - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:35] <exec> 08└─Is a GPU better than a "TPU" or ASIC at these problems?
[16:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:40] <exec> 08└─If I had a satellite that mounted a powerful, say, weapons-grade laser system, and I pointed that laser system at the Earth, below, and moved the focus ... I could make the far end of the beam move pretty fast.
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[17:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Calls on U.S. to Adjust its Approach to Tackle Cybersecurity Effectively - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:04] <exec> 08└─I've heard about Chinese tech spies for years, if not decades. The fact that it took us this long to respond, is disheartening. "This is not normal." perhaps, in some places in the world and has been protected against in the US. The fact of the matter is that China has been stealing technology for d...
[17:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Calls on U.S. to Adjust its Approach to Tackle Cybersecurity Effectively - 1133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:06] <exec> 08└─If that is your real name. This is a much better and more interesting submission than most of the others you've subbed. Good show! Hopefully it will spark a good discussion. The actions of China over the past 30 years or so WRT surreptitious technology and IP transfers is absolutely an issue. I also...
[17:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Huawei Calls on U.S. to Adjust its Approach to Tackle Cybersecurity Effectively - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:08] <exec> 08└─Very true! Usually the roles are reversed. But the government is allowed to "boycott" Huawei. This is a basic procurement thing. Huawei is not entitled to a contract.
[17:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Huawei Calls on U.S. to Adjust its Approach to Tackle Cybersecurity Effectively - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:10] <exec> 08└─Ideological attack on any corporation is an attack against Liberty, a step into totality.
[17:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:45] <exec> 08└─Obesity due to poor diet cuts across the racial spectrum.
[17:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:47] <exec> 08└─Puffing peters doesn't hurt anyone. Exposure to carcinogenic smoke, does.
[17:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:16] <exec> 08└─unbiased is itself, a bias.
[17:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:17] <exec> 08└─Most of the problems being ascribed to AI are not really AI problems. When a software bug causes a self-driving car to crash into a barrier, it does not matter if the software uses A*, or Grover's algorithm, or minimax, or a neural network. It doesn't matter if it was written in C or Python. The des...
[17:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:20] <exec> 08└─> What its biases are is the issue not that it's biased. Any attempt to arrest a senior officer of Facebook results in shutdown.
[17:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:22] <exec> 08└─2 years ago. I forget the specifics, but they had robots called Personas or something. This one deviant kid treats them like humans, which leads to a battle between him and multiple schoolmates, as well as an anti-droid/AI league, and the military because a 40th AI (most AIs were huge building spann...
[17:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:24] <exec> 08└─Thus if you feed it headshots of the perpetrators of all violent firearm homicides, you should not be shocked when it becomes biased toward identifying young black men;
[17:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beer Archaeologists are Reviving Ancient Ales - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:08] <exec> 08└─"... fermented in spit".
[17:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beer Archaeologists are Reviving Ancient Ales - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:09] <exec> 08└─My high school guidance counsellor did NOT tell me that becoming a "beer archeologist" was a viable career option. Now all I have is this engineering degree.
[17:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beer Archaeologists are Reviving Ancient Ales - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:12] <exec> 08└─Actually, the starter will change to adapt to the local conditions within a few weeks time, so it's pretty much impossible to make the exact same bread in two different places.
[17:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Plans to Launch 'GlobalCoin' Cryptocurrency in 2020 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:27] <exec> 08└─As soon as I saw the headline, I thought "In Zuck we Trust". Then I hurt myself laughing.
[17:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Single Transistor Could Perform AND/OR Operations - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:47] <exec> 08└─A transistor is like a valve controlling the flow of electricity. You turn the valve on or off by applying a voltage or not to the control input ("base" or "gate" depending on type of transistor), and in turn electrical current flows through the transistor (or not) between the inflow and outflow por...
[17:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single Transistor Could Perform AND/OR Operations - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:49] <exec> 08└─There are literally hundreds of sites on the Web that will explain this to you in any desired degree of complexity. Google for one or two of them... I strongly suspect that you a just trolling, but I'll wait and see what other 'contributions' you make to this and other discussions before deciding.
[17:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Quicksilver [1821] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 1058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:33] <exec> 08└─If you are a pirate with one eye this makes perfect sense. For all of us with binocular vision this is stupid and dangerous. Apparently they never looked at how a person uses their mirrors. Actually look at someone when they check their mirrors and you will see them MOVE their head so they can scan...
[17:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:34] <exec> 08└─Try night, when several long lines of cars are shining their headlights into those mirrors. Will the screen show anything useful?
[17:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Plans to Commercialize a 58-Qubit Quantum Computer - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:06] <exec> 08└─I think there is a world market for maybe five quantum computers.
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[18:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Shares "10nm" Ice Lake Processor Details - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:06] <exec> 08└─Where no matter how pure the substrate, how accurately the semiconductors are cut and laid, quantum interactions start introducing defects into circuits? I thought I heard that years ago when we hit 12 nm.
[18:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Calls on U.S. to Adjust its Approach to Tackle Cybersecurity Effectively - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:18] <exec> 08└─Bills of attainder(and thus executive orders acting as bills of attainder) are unconstitutional as fuck.
[18:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Calls on U.S. to Adjust its Approach to Tackle Cybersecurity Effectively - 1156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:20] <exec> 08└─While I agree with what has been said regarding the totalitarian regime that is China, while I do find this legal motion deliciously ironic, this has nothing to do with the PRC's human rights issues. This is strictly an issue of economic and control. Let's not lose sight of that. The US wants their...
[18:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Calls on U.S. to Adjust its Approach to Tackle Cybersecurity Effectively - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah but nobody bothered to read that part of the constitution. Of the basically no one that did none of them looked the meaning of the new words they'd never seen before up. Of those people no one looked up the reasoning behind the law to see why we definitely should keep it. Just look at all the p...
[18:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Calls on U.S. to Adjust its Approach to Tackle Cybersecurity Effectively - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:24] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure expunging records fits the same model as ex post facto laws in any meaningful way. "We should not punish people for things they could not have understood to be criminal at the time they did them" and "We should not keep punishing people it was wrong to punish in the first place" aren't...
[18:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Buy Cancelled All Galaxy Fold Preorders - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:35] <exec> 08└─Galaxy Fold, Spindle and Mutilate
[18:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:03] <exec> 08└─The number of calories people end up drinking (especially from soda) really is mind boggling. Given that a 12 oz coke has the equivalent of almost 10 teaspoons of sugar, and I see people in line at the super market buying the shit like some staple part of their diet in containers about 2-1/2 feet ta...
[18:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:05] <exec> 08└─Au contraire. Herpes in the mouth hurts like a motherfucker.
[18:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06W3C and the WHATWG Sign an Agreement to Collaborate on a Single Version of HTML and DOM - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:57] <exec> 08└─Ain't DOM its own standard maintained by WHATWG anyway?
[18:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06W3C and the WHATWG Sign an Agreement to Collaborate on a Single Version of HTML and DOM - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:58] <exec> 08└─WHATWG == WHATWhereditGo
[18:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06W3C and the WHATWG Sign an Agreement to Collaborate on a Single Version of HTML and DOM - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:00] <exec> 08└─Well, HTML changed from 4 to 4.1 to 5 ... so I would imagine that continued development will produce new snapshots of the "living standard".
[18:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Compounds Found Which Illuminate and Kill Drug Resistant Gram Negative Bacteria - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:12] <exec> 08└─And the sort of nonsense you are writing is the reason Doctors don't prescribe proper antibiotics to people, even when they need them. Where is the study that shows a single life has been saved by holding back on treatment? The world is big and bacteria are all over the place. Some are naturally res...
[18:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beer Archaeologists are Reviving Ancient Ales - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:31] <exec> 08└─Gonna return to makin' it the way they used to, huh? Jee, people must be getting tired of [American] brews that're watered down with fluoride, weight-loss drugs, & Viagra.
[18:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Baltimore And Beyond, A Stolen NSA Tool Wreaks Havoc - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:13] <exec> 08└─"We" already have the majority. We have a ninety fucking percent majority because they isolated all the people they could into a couple fucking districts. Do you know how gerrymandering works?
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[19:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Shares "10nm" Ice Lake Processor Details - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:10] <exec> 08└─You did. That's one of the reasons it has been taking so long. Had to work out the ramification of that on top of making things that small and that accurate.
[19:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Shares "10nm" Ice Lake Processor Details - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:11] <exec> 08└─What can you even do about random bit flips happening, though? It's not like every gate having an ECC at 10 nm is a smaller or more performative chip than a flat 12 nm one. My abstract algebra is a little rusty, but I don't recall a way to make it up.
[19:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Shares "10nm" Ice Lake Processor Details - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:13] <exec> 08└─Yep, such a problem in fact that Samsung is having to do it at half the size just to dodge the qubits. https://www.zdnet.com [zdnet.com]
[19:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Shares "10nm" Ice Lake Processor Details - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:16] <exec> 08└─Did anyone else perceive the Skylake curse? It seemed that every time I turned around, there was another problem with Skylake that wasn't a thing with the 5th gen chipset. Network drivers that needed updating, embedded graphics glitches, overheating (of the i5 NUCs), and our vendors seemed to delay...
[19:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Shares "10nm" Ice Lake Processor Details - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:18] <exec> 08└─How many 5nm ARM cores does it take to wrestle down a 10nm bloat *cough* CISC Core?
[19:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Shares "10nm" Ice Lake Processor Details - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:20] <exec> 08└─It was because Intel screwed the pooch bad enough they were having to work incompatible errata fixes into everything that was going to break older chips, either unintentionally, or intentionally.
[19:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Huawei Calls on U.S. to Adjust its Approach to Tackle Cybersecurity Effectively - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:37] <exec> 08└─Corporations are a fabrication created by Governments On the contrary, it's quite reversed. Businesses set up and finance governments to protect their contracts. If the financing dries up, and is redirected towards the opposition, the government disappears, and a more compliant one is created.
[19:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Improbus [6425] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Huawei Calls on U.S. to Adjust its Approach to Tackle Cybersecurity Effectively - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:38] <exec> 08└─Totality and Totalitarianism, which you probably meant, are two different things. Look them up in a dictionary. Maybe consider ESL course.
[19:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Calls on U.S. to Adjust its Approach to Tackle Cybersecurity Effectively - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:40] <exec> 08└─Or American tech spies during our developing years. It is far more common than most countries would like to admit. the difference is, most countries aren't big enough to do it on the scale China can. The last one that could was the US and it was directly responsible for many advances in American tec...
[19:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Buy Cancelled All Galaxy Fold Preorders - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:53] <exec> 08└─Galaxy FoLoL'd.
[19:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Buy Cancelled All Galaxy Fold Preorders - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:54] <exec> 08└─Galaxy Fondle.
[19:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:23] <exec> 08└─Soda is designed to be as addictive as possible and sugar is part of this. a 12 OZ drink with 20 and 30 grams of sugar? I've never met a soda addict who could explain what 20 grams of sugar means. I've watched this crap make family old before their days and heard every excuse in the world why their...
[19:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well, the racist bullshit is right there in the summary: pushed on communities of color
[19:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:27] <exec> 08└─You've obviously never been poor. They can and do have limits to what food stamps will buy. They're just shitty limits. Like you can buy a bottle of Coke but not a fountain Coke. You can buy a microwave burrito but you can't heat it up until after it's been paid for. It's really fucking stupid and a...
[19:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:29] <exec> 08└─So they use the word "may" because they're not really sure about the link between sugary drinks and obesity and tooth decay. But when it comes to climate change, they are sure that CO2 is bad? The mind boggles.
[19:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:31] <exec> 08└─They are like banner ads. This is just politicians pretending to do something. Lots of posturing, back patting and money wasted for nothing.
[19:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:06] <exec> 08└─Given the current state of the world the best solution would be to invent an AI that convinces people that killing themselves will make their enemies butthurt. Suck it dems imma cheat on my taxes and then kill myself!!!!
[19:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06W3C and the WHATWG Sign an Agreement to Collaborate on a Single Version of HTML and DOM - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:27] <exec> 08└─When having a talk where going where haters are taking working groups we have a terrible walled garden: We have almost Thanos'd working groups with huge amorphous terminology wastelands, going where humans absolutely talk weird / gross with horrendous acronyms that weren't good.
[19:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06W3C and the WHATWG Sign an Agreement to Collaborate on a Single Version of HTML and DOM - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:29] <exec> 08└─The summary can be summarized in two words: W3C surrendered.
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[19:50:00] <exec> 08└─Yup. Peruvian Masatao [nationalgeographic.com] Amerindian Kasiri [wikipedia.org] Chicha [wikipedia.org] Nihamanchï [wikipedia.org] There's a Pacific islands beverage too - might be kava, but I think not - at least I've read an account of a starchy food based fermented drink being prepared for a vil...
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[19:51:22] <exec> 08└─Heh, nah. Not in TN they won't. There aren't any sorts of inspections required on vehicles here at all.
[19:51:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The All-Electric Honda e is Bringing its Side View Mirrors Inside - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:23] <exec> 08└─I set my mirrors the same. It makes sense to use the entire mirror, and not use part of the visual field to show a static image of the side of your vehicle. As you say, it pretty much eliminates blind spots. If I move my head slightly, of course I can reassure myself that the side of the vehicle is...
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[19:52:27] <exec> 08└─...the atmosphere is already heavily reducing due to all that oxygen in the first place
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[20:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Department of Homeland Security Warns Against Using Chinese Drones - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:10] <exec> 08└─What about all those other devices in everyones pockets right now the cell phones made in China. Built in mic, camera and gps tracking of every citizen in the US. The the TVs of the smart variety all over the place with just about the same level of spying able to be done. In short that ship of secur...
[20:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Department of Homeland Security Warns Against Using Chinese Drones - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:12] <exec> 08└─But the Department of Homeland Security is warning that drones manufactured by any company could pose security risks, including that the data they gather could be stolen.
[20:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Shares "10nm" Ice Lake Processor Details - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:27] <exec> 08└─how many more bugs does it introduce?
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[20:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Shares "10nm" Ice Lake Processor Details - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:28] <exec> 08└─Intel's "10nm" process is comparable to TSMC's "7nm". TSMC has better yields, and AMD's chiplet approach can handle defects better. Intel will move to a chiplet approach and has demoed mixing process nodes. AMD uses "14nm" I/O die alongside "7nm" core chiplets. Intel demoed a chip that used "14nm" a...
[20:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Shares "10nm" Ice Lake Processor Details - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:30] <exec> 08└─You don't have clearance to know that information.
[20:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Shares "10nm" Ice Lake Processor Details - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:33] <exec> 08└─So I'm hearing "You were an idiot for taking internet commenters on a tech site 5 years ago as even remotely knowledgeable"
[20:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Buy Cancelled All Galaxy Fold Preorders - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:07] <exec> 08└─You could save time by blending it maybe?
[20:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:44] <exec> 08└─Semantics. He could have said "tons" and it would have had the same meaning. It was a figure of speech, meant to emphasize that those products are over-consumed. The units of measure are not what's relevant here. Even on the Internet, where nuance and sarcasm in particular are hard to convey, you sh...
[20:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:45] <exec> 08└─You guys could also stop subsidising the sugar industry to the tune of $4 billion per year. [marketwatch.com]
[20:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:47] <exec> 08└─tsia
[20:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:50] <exec> 08└─I appreciate the explanation, but don't follow the logic. The statement "Sugary drinks cause obesity and tooth decay" already does not imply that everyone who drinks them will suffer those effects. People will read the word "may" as meaning that the opposite may also be true, i.e. sugary drinks may...
[20:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:52] <exec> 08└─A fountain drink and a preheated burrito are both foods that have been "prepared" by someone before you pay for them, they fall into the same category as getting a big mac or happy meal legally. The rule in most states is that food stamps can't be used to buy food that has been prepared/cooked by so...
[20:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06W3C and the WHATWG Sign an Agreement to Collaborate on a Single Version of HTML and DOM - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:49] <exec> 08└─Spoken like someone who never had to work in a private company as an employee. If you think "living standards" are bad, does that mean you think a standard should be written once and never evolve? No new versions ever? Do we delay things for years (or decades) to ensure our one shot is perfect, or d...
[20:50:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] 02 - 06Beer Archaeologists are Reviving Ancient Ales - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:14] <exec> 08└─> Piss is Australian for beer Funnily enough, it's also English for Australian beer.
[20:50:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06Single Transistor Could Perform AND/OR Operations - 427 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:48] <exec> 08└─In the digital world we think of 1 or 0, on or off, and we design circuits and systems to behave this way. But the dirty little secret is that pretty much all of the digital circuits are analog under the hood. We decide what voltages constitute a digital 0 and 1. So for the most common digital logic...
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[21:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Department of Homeland Security Warns Against Using Chinese Drones - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:10] <exec> 08└─"We're not being paranoid," the video's narrator adds.
[21:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Department of Homeland Security Warns Against Using Chinese Drones - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:11] <exec> 08└─I'm more concerned with Amazon and Google.
[21:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Department of Homeland Security Warns Against Using Chinese Drones - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:13] <exec> 08└─We, the people, do not want a trade war
[21:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Department of Homeland Security Warns Against Using Chinese Drones - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:16] <exec> 08└─We, the people, do not want a trade war.
[21:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Department of Homeland Security Warns Against Using Chinese Drones - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:18] <exec> 08└─Drones in general pose multiple threats, but somehow Chinese drones are the worst threat because... they can somehow send images captured by private citizens back to China? Like, a Chinese intellegence agent in this country couldn’t simply buy a drone and do it themselves? Meanwhile, American tec...
[21:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Shares "10nm" Ice Lake Processor Details - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:35] <exec> 08└─Remember, that recommendation applies to itself...
[21:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Shares "10nm" Ice Lake Processor Details - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:37] <exec> 08└─I don't think "quantum interactions" really refers to the manufacturing defects. It's the manufacturing process which uses deep ultraviolet or soon extreme ultraviolet to create feature sizes that are smaller than the wavelength of the light used. So they have to use multiple patterning to handle th...
[21:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Shares "10nm" Ice Lake Processor Details - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:39] <exec> 08└─They've been pushing the thermal limits too far. I got a NUC, and yeah, it overheats. Most of the time it can handle CPU torture like with a distributed computing project such as GIMPS. It overheats only a couple of times per week while running that. But, engage those built in 3D graphics, and it'll...
[21:47:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] 02 - 06Huawei Calls on U.S. to Adjust its Approach to Tackle Cybersecurity Effectively - 1156 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:51] <exec> 08└─While I agree with what has been said regarding the totalitarian regime that is China, while I do find this legal motion deliciously ironic, this has nothing to do with the PRC's human rights issues. This is strictly an issue of economic and control. Let's not lose sight of that. The US wants their...
[21:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:53] <exec> 08└─The justification is that if it can buy prepared foods (which tend to be more expensive), then there is no way to stop recipients from blowing their Food Stamps at McDonalds. Interestingly enough there is a part of this same law that allows you to receive a cash benefit (other than TANF) instead of...
[21:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:55] <exec> 08└─Can't buy beer, wine or spirits with it either. Seems it would be trivial to just add soda to that list. But the thing is, for some of these kids that sugary soda might be the only calories they get that day. Not every family on foodstamps is like this, but growing up I knew kids who's parents would...
[21:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:57] <exec> 08└─Carbonated soft drinks are full of *gasp* CO2. Just let the folks in California know that each can they open contributes to climate change and they'll be banning it like it was known to cause cancer or something.
[21:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:59] <exec> 08└─Contrary to some medically unsound but popular beliefs, sugar is not a drug. While consumption of excessive amounts of sugar can definitely lead to health issues, a single can of soda does not actually have all that much calories. It's the very large soda drinks that get people. Would you get fat if...
[21:49:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mobydisk [5472] 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 528 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:29] <exec> 08└─Most of the problems being ascribed to AI are not really AI problems. When a software bug causes a self-driving car to crash into a barrier, it does not matter if the software uses A*, or Grover's algorithm, or minimax, or a neural network. It doesn't matter if it was written in C or Python. The des...
[21:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:35] <exec> 08└─Your timeframe is way off. All we have to do is create a suitable neuromorphic design that can be scaled up. The chips could be built vertically or stacked since they are likely to have very low power consumption compared to CPUs. You could mimic brain volume in this way. Once the design is ready, i...
[21:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06W3C and the WHATWG Sign an Agreement to Collaborate on a Single Version of HTML and DOM - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:00] <exec> 08└─Yup, translated from the Black Speech it says W3C will cease and desist all activity and merge their current projects into the WHATWG and their page says: WHATWG (Apple, Google, Mozilla, Microsoft) so four lawful evil aligned corporations now control the web.
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[22:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Department of Homeland Security Warns Against Using Chinese Drones - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:16] <exec> 08└─I mean aren't they all pretty much made in China?
[22:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Department of Homeland Security Warns Against Using Chinese Drones - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:18] <exec> 08└─You gotta start somewhere. ZTE. Huawei. DJI.
[22:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Department of Homeland Security Warns Against Using Chinese Drones - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:20] <exec> 08└─After a Brief Period, Huawei Has Silently Found Its Way Back to the SD Association, and Other Standards [wccftech.com]
[22:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Calls on U.S. to Adjust its Approach to Tackle Cybersecurity Effectively - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:00] <exec> 08└─and consolidate all work onto Linux/bsd. Better security.
[22:48:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:38] <exec> 08└─I'd say "people of Walmart" need labels. Obesity due to poor diet cuts across the racial spectrum.
[22:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:01] <exec> 08└─in order to be able to eat or buy diapers or whatever.
[22:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:02] <exec> 08└─See, I took it as a joke. I doubt it was intended to be otherwise. Why get angry?
[22:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:05] <exec> 08└─I look back to when I was a kid and we were allowed 1 bottle of Pop Shoppe pop per 2-3 days; now people drink it by the dumpster-full. People need to get a grip and drink more water.
[22:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:07] <exec> 08└─I only ever see people buy soda, potato chips and microwave dinners with food stamps.
[22:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:09] <exec> 08└─That's what pisses me off about this. Not *every* drink is loaded with sugar. There's talk about getting rid of the 48oz BigGulp sizes, which is way too fucking much after getting rid of the 64, and the glorious 128. Lipton ice tea, fresh brewed, in a 48oz cup full of ice on a hot summer day? Fuck y...
[22:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 1589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:11] <exec> 08└─I know this is sarcasm, but I actually think it's got a good point. People are used to soda being ridiculously sweet, so they expect it. I personally almost never drink soda, because it tastes so awful and incredibly sweet that I find it revolting. There are sodas (mostly premium ones) that contain...
[22:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:13] <exec> 08└─The measure by Sen. Bill Monning (D-Carmel) received a bare majority of votes
[22:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:16] <exec> 08└─Would you get fat if you consumed 64 Fl Oz of potatoes every meal? Probably.
[22:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:18] <exec> 08└─Carbonated soft drinks are full of *burp* CO2.
[22:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:20] <exec> 08└─Why is the government trying to decide what I do to MY body? Get out of my fat lined uterus. Being fat is attractive, there is no need to body shame either. Serious note: There should be no laws determining what you can and cannot do to your own body. The government should step in when you start har...
[22:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:22] <exec> 08└─You make an excellent point. But, there's probably some legal ruling somewhere where a definite statement like "x causes y" must be true in all cases otherwise it'll be challenged in court on those grounds and end up getting watered down (like this) or removed completely. This is the basis of so muc...
[22:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Compounds Found Which Illuminate and Kill Drug Resistant Gram Negative Bacteria - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:36] <exec> 08└─One of the links above reinforces what you are saying : https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Basically a multi-drug resistant bug from before there were drugs to be resistant to. Wierd eh? The whole point of drugs is to fight disease, if you don't use them again...
[22:51:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Plans to Launch 'GlobalCoin' Cryptocurrency in 2020 - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:14] <exec> 08└─Do they think there's not enough scams on Facebook already? Or just not enough scams that they profit from? The new and improved Facebook: because controlling your eyeballs is not enough!
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[23:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Department of Homeland Security Warns Against Using Chinese Drones - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:28] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, American tech companies are sending detailed design and manufacturing documentation for some of the most sophisticated consumer electronics in the world to low cost Chinese producers.
[23:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Department of Homeland Security Warns Against Using Chinese Drones - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:29] <exec> 08└─I'm of the opinion now that I don't give a fuck where the electronics come from. I care more about the environmental impact of making them in the first place, long term plans for recycling and disposal, and security. If Huawai can show me a blob/binary free high end processor (without that speculati...
[23:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Intel Shares "10nm" Ice Lake Processor Details - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:50] <exec> 08└─I'm trying to use a NUC (Skylake, I think) to drive a 4K screen, and it struggles big time. The NUC is "installed" (more like laying) on the back of the screen where some of the screen electronics feed it warm air - if I fiddle it around into a cooler airstream it will handle fullscreen video a litt...
[23:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Shares "10nm" Ice Lake Processor Details - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:52] <exec> 08└─Smartphones, Amazon Fire TV 4K, etc. can do 4K video output. It's surprising that a NUC can't handle it.
[23:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Calls on U.S. to Adjust its Approach to Tackle Cybersecurity Effectively - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:13] <exec> 08└─"[half the stuff Trump does]," he said. "This is not normal."
[23:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Huawei Calls on U.S. to Adjust its Approach to Tackle Cybersecurity Effectively - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:14] <exec> 08└─Nothing to do with "Trump"... His error is the belief that government is more powerful than business.
[23:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:27] <exec> 08└─I'm not particularly angry, but I don't think it was meant as a set-up line and it wasn't a particularly funny joke... if it was intended as such. Does anything mean anything any more? I guess it depends on what your definition of definition is, as if any of this matters much anyway.
[23:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:28] <exec> 08└─I preferred getting commodities back when I was a wee little kid and we were poor as dirt. The big blocks of cheese they gave out were my favorite cheese right up until last year when I discovered bacon horseradish cheddar.
[23:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:31] <exec> 08└─This is not about forcing anyone to do anything (except accurately label). This is about letting people know that this product will lead to fattening up, diabetes, and tooth decay should you be wanting those things. This way you can safely avoid all the other drinks/foods without this label. You can...
[23:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill To Put Health Warnings On Soda And Sugary Drinks Advances In California - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:33] <exec> 08└─It's not so much the juice, as it is the way it's delivered. OK, there's HFCS vs. real sugar. Coke used to be real sugar in 6.5 oz. bottles. Themz was the good ol' days. When I was still drinking the stuff, 12 oz. cans were standard. Already too much, but tolerable and I'd drink the whole thing and...
[23:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There’s Still Time To Prevent Biased AI From Taking Over The World - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:10] <exec> 08└─Any attempt to arrest a senior officer of Facebook results in shutdown
[23:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06W3C and the WHATWG Sign an Agreement to Collaborate on a Single Version of HTML and DOM - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:36] <exec> 08└─Is nothing sacred anymore? Can this be fixed?
[23:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06W3C and the WHATWG Sign an Agreement to Collaborate on a Single Version of HTML and DOM - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:37] <exec> 08└─Creating a separate no-JS web? 🤔
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